I was looking to move all my sites over from Installatron to Softaculous but very surprised to find you don't have this backup feature (though have been promising it for 3 years). Seems I'll be sticking with Installatron.

We understand it took much longer than expected for adding remote backups option, however we had to make several changes in Softaculous core to support backups to remote servers and sometimes it also go delayed due to other priorities.

Once the changes in Softaculous core were completed for remote backups we can add more services like Dropbox, Google Drive.

We added support for FTP to start with remote backups and we have also completed integration with Dropbox and are currently testing the same and will try to release it soon.

For Google Drive we will start this integration once Dropbox is released.

1. The scheduled backups are working, but they happen for me (in Australia) at 10:30am. Wouldn't it be better to have these run in the middle of the night, local server time?

2. More importantly, the naming of the backups makes the whole thing useless. I am getting backups with a file name something like wp.35_23456.2017-12-06_23-35-03.tar.gz

I have a reseller account and I'm looking to backup a number of wordpress sites every night. They all end up in the one Dropbox folder, so it means I have no way of knowing which backup is from which account. It would seem obvious that the file name should include the name of the account somewhere.

Sorry.. I have been waiting years for this feature and it is still not usable.

>>I set up the Dropbox account and tried a backup to Dropbox and it freezes at "Checking the submitted data 95%".
We will need to debug this issue for which we would require your control panel login details. Please open a support ticket with us at : https://www.softaculous.com/support/ with the details.

>>1. The scheduled backups are working, but they happen for me (in Australia) at 10:30am. Wouldn't it be better to have these run in the middle of the night, local server time?
You can set custom timings for your auto backups during installation by setting the 'Automated Backups' option to 'Custom' and then filling in your preferred timings in the 'Automated Backups Cron Time' text boxes that appear below. You can set the same from the Edit Installation page of the Softaculous as well.

>>2. More importantly, the naming of the backups makes the whole thing useless. I am getting backups with a file name something like wp.35_23456.2017-12-06_23-35-03.tar.gz
Our backup naming convention is the same throughout, in local as well as remote. You can, however, add different dropbox backup locations in Softaculous and set different directories (Backup Location) for different accounts.
https://www.softaculous.com/docs/Add_Backup_Location_Dropbox

Then you can save the respective backup location as the default one for each account or you can also set the backup location differently for each installation while installing or editing the installation in Softaculous from the field 'Backup Location'.

"You can set custom timings for your auto backups during installation by setting the 'Automated Backups' option to 'Custom"

Ah.. OK. That's a nice feature. I hadn't realised that option was in there. I can play with that to get a better backup time.

"You can, however, add different dropbox backup locations"

Yes, I found that and it does help the anonymous naming problem a little. But when you are restoring a number of backups, or moving them around in storage they can very easily become muddled. However, I have discovered that the number they are given refers to the unique installation number assigned within Softaculous, so I guess I could keep a reference file somewhere to decode them.

Still, it would be great to have the account name included in the file name in a more obvious format.